More of the chickens are starting to lay, so we ended up with about 5 more eggs today alone.

One broke trying to remove it from the coop.

I gave two more away at work.

And I took the last two home for dinner.

Praew is coming home late today so K’Tanawat asked me if I want to bring home a head of a vegetable that looks like a cross between lettuce and spinach. I’m not sure if I’ve ever eaten it before, but he called it “pak gaad”. He said it is tasty in a dish where it is fried together with eggs. So here they are in my kitchen waiting for me to decide whether I am going to try frying it up myself or wait for Praew to get home:

The chickens seem to be settling in more and more each day. K’Tanawat lets them out of the coop to run around each day. Here is a picture of them this morning:

Interestingly, when I came by the land at around 5:30PM to do some more work on the electrical wiring in the house, I noticed that 4 of the chickens had escaped from the fenced in chicken run and were lounging around just outside the fence. The odd part of this is that there were 4 dogs within sight of the coop. I’m really happy the dogs didn’t decide to treat the chickens like food. Maybe they’ve accustomed themselves to the chickens and treat them like a flock to be protected?

I took these pictures right after I got the chickens back in:

And this guy is just lounging in the grass on the left side of the road in the previous picture. He is only about 20 meters from the coop.

But I counted the chickens, and we still have 10 of them. So now I am a little less worried about the dogs breaking into the coop at night and killing the chickens. (I’m sure they could if they really wanted to.)